Home networking and CCTV storage redundancy

Wings

Wings

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Hi all,

I'm planning out my home networking at the moment, including CCTV. Nothing installed yet.

I think for me the right solution looks like 5 or 6 4k cameras (Dahua TIOC series POE) and a Synology 420+. The role of the 420+ will simply be:

- Wireless backup for our laptops
- Central storage of all media including photos and movies
- Management and playback of CCTV footage

However... If I'm on holiday and someone breaks in, it won't take long to find and steal the 420+. So what I am thinking is I would like a cheap second solution which I can hide somewhere. I guess this would become the 'primary' NVR and in turn back up to the 420+ if that makes sense.

The reason I don't just hide the 420+ is that to properly hide my other NVR it will need to be somewhere fairly remote and unpleasant (depths of attic, garage, wall cavity) etc so not ideal for my primary NAS.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Throrik said:
Weigh up costs of buying a secondary NAS and the effort of 'hiding' it versus an ongoing cost of dumping the data in somewhere like AWS Glacier. Especially if you're not going to be retrieving the data often.
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Yeah, have done but it's still quite expensive when 6 cameras running at 4k generate around a Tb per 24hrs.

I'm thinking my best option is to buy a second Synology (cheaper 2 bay model) as my NVR, hide it, and run a sync overnight.
 
WJA96 said:
That recorder with an 8Tb HDD is £500-ish. As stated by @fobose, don’t buy the 8MP TiOCs if you actually want to see anything in the dark. They use MUCH smaller receptors on the sensor array and they are F1.4 rather than F1.0 on the 5MP cameras. They’re also limited to 2.8mm lenses at the moment I believe.
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Thanks, I'm getting the 4K ones you mentioned in the other thread. Buying the Dahua recorder works if I can have it backup to a NAS automatically!
 
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